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Lost Italian Renaissance : Humanists, Historians, and Latin's Legacy (04 Edition)
by Christopher S. Celenza  Publisher Comments The intellectual heritage of the Italian Renaissance rivals that of any period in human history. Yet even as the social, political, and economic history of Renaissance Italy inspires exciting and innovative scholarship, the study of its intellectual...
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The Medici
by Franco Cesati Publisher Comments The Medici are probably the best-known and most illustrious Italian family - one that produced two popes, two Queens of France and such a multi-faceted and extraordinary figure as Lorenzo the Magnificent. Their name is inextricably linked to the history...
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Purdue Studies in Romance Literature #3: After Machiavelli: Re-Writing and the "Hermeneutic Attitude"
by Barbara J Godorecci Publisher Comments After Machiavelli is an examination of the triangular relationship of re-writing ua dynamic process encompassing both creative newness and awareness of historical profundity uthe hermeneutic attitude:' and Machiavelli's poiesis. Specifically, it...
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Dragmalogia de eligibili vite genere
by Giovanni Da Ravenna Publisher Comments This volume provides an insight into the intellectual concerns and social thought of a great Paduan humanist. This is the first complete scholarly edition of the major work of Giovanni di Coversino da Ravenna, statesman and successor to Petrarch and...
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Women and Religion in Medieval and Renaissance Italy (Women in Culture & Society)
by Daniel Bornstein Publisher Comments Between the twelfth and the sixteenth centuries, women assumed public roles of unprecedented prominence in Italian religious culture. Legally subordinated, politically excluded, socially limited, and ideologically disdained, women's active participation...
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Corruption :ethics and power in Florence, 1600-1770
by Jean Claude Waquet Book News Annotation A shocking revelation that once upon a time, government officials actually embezzled public money and took bribes. Waquet (early modern history, U. of Strassbourg) uses the example of Florence, and a critical review of previous studies on the topic...
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The Cardinal's Hat: Money, Ambition, and Housekeeping in a Renaissance Court
by Mary Hollingsworth Publisher Comments Hollingsworth reveals the fascinating story of how Ippolito Este, the second son of Lucretia Borgia, acquired the coveted cardinal's hat and became the Archbishop of Milan....
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Mad Blood Stirring: Vendetta & Factions in Friuli During the Renaissance
by Edward Muir Publisher Comments Awarded the 1993 Howard Marraro Prize for the best book in Italian history Nobles were slaughtered and their castles looted or destroyed, bodies were dismembered and corpses fed to animals -- the Udine carnival massacre of 1511 was the most extensive and...
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Gateway to the Middle Ages: Italy
by Eleanor Shipley Duckett Publisher Comments Portrays the struggle to defend Italian lands against the Eastern Goths and barbarians from the North....
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Histories of a Plague Year: The Social & the Imaginary in Baroque Florence
by Giulia Calvi Publisher Comments Since 1945, historians have quite successfully uncovered what everyday life was like for the popular classes of pre-industrial Europe. How these people made sense of their lives, however, has proven to be more elusive. By focusing on the plague of 1630...
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Florence: A Portrait
by Michael Levey Publisher Comments Nestled in the Apennines, cradle of the Renaissance, home of Dante, Michelangelo, and the Medici, Florence is unlike any other city in its extraordinary mingling of great art and literature,natural splendor, and remarkable history. Intimate and grand...
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Florence, Rome, and the Origins of the Renaissance
by George Holmes Publisher Comments The years between 1260 and 1320 saw in Tuscany the flourishing of a rich literary and artistic tradition that signalled the beginning of the Renaissance. This study places the remarkable cultural achievements of those early years in full historical...
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Florence: A Portrait
by Michael Levey Publisher Comments Nestled in the Apennines, cradle of the Renaissance, home of Dante, Michelangelo, and the Medici, Florence is unlike any other city in its extraordinary mingling of great art and literature, natural splendor, and remarkable history. Intimate and grand...
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An Italian Renaissance Sextet: Six Tales in Historical Context
by Lauro Martines
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Two Memoirs of Renaissance Florence The
by Julia Martines
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The Family in Renaissance Florence, Book 3
by Leon Battista Alberti
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Rise & Fall of the House of Medici
by Christopher Hibbert
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Machiavelli & Guicciardini: Politics & History in Sixteenth-Century Florence
by Felix Gilbert
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Renaissance Rome 1500-1559
by Peter Partner
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Prettiest Love Letters in the World: Letters Between Lucrezia Borgia and Pietro Bembo, 1503-1519
by Lucrezia Borgia
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